Apple Podcast Rankings - USA - True Crime

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in USA

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in USA. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 06 May 2026

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05/06/2026

Average data

Episodes: 294

Frequency: every 14 days

Duration: 00:46:18

Top 5 authors

1. Audiochuck (5 shows)

2. Crime House (5 shows)

3. NBC News (4 shows)

4. iHeartPodcasts | Glass Podcasts (3 shows)

5. Sony Music Entertainment (3 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Simplecast (24 shows)

2. Megaphone (23 shows)

3. ART19 (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (11 shows)

5. WideOrbit (8 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Crime Junkie	Audiochuck	True Crime	528	Simplecast	53
2	Love Trapped	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	True Crime	34	Omny Studio	63
3	Dateline NBC	NBC News	True Crime	877	Simplecast	53
4	Blood and Water	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
5	Morbid	Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart	True Crime	900	Simplecast	68
6	48 Hours	48 Hours	True Crime	1143	WideOrbit	53
7	20/20	ABC News	True Crime	60	Megaphone	38
8	MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories	Ballen Studios	True Crime	566	Simplecast	57
9	My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	1237	Omny Studio	38
10	The Binge: Free Shelley Jensen	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	160	Megaphone	48
11	Betrayal Season 6	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	185	Omny Studio	63
12	Park Predators	Audiochuck	True Crime	184	Simplecast	63
13	Blood is Thicker: The Farris Wheel	CBS News	True Crime	27	ART19	63
14	Snapped: Women Who Murder	Oxygen	True Crime	373	ART19	58
15	Serialously with Annie Elise	Annie Elise	True Crime	456	Simplecast	68
16	Rotten Mango	Stephanie Soo	True Crime	570	Simplecast	63
17	Homicide 360	Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi and Scott Weinberger \| Daylight Media	True Crime	25	Megaphone	58
18	Murder With My Husband	OH NO MEDIA	True Crime	362	Megaphone	68
19	Trace of Suspicion	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
20	Last Podcast On The Left	The Last Podcast Network	True Crime	1218	Simplecast	58
21	The Idiot	Serial Productions & The New York Times	True Crime	7	Simplecast	73
22	The Binge Cases: Doctor Billions	Sony Music Entertainment	True Crime	209	Megaphone	48
23	True Crime All The Time	Emash Digital	True Crime	550	ART19	58
24	Who Killed Roxanne?	Charles Dowdy	True Crime	8	Libsyn	63
25	The Deck	Audiochuck	True Crime	250	Simplecast	58
26	10 to Life	Annie Elise	True Crime	61	Simplecast	73
27	Casefile True Crime	Casefile Presents	True Crime	428	Acast	43
28	The Girlfriends: Flight or Fight	iHeartPodcasts and Novel	True Crime	69	Omny Studio	78
29	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	413	Megaphone	63
30	Blunt Force Trauma	EchoSpace	True Crime	11	Megaphone	59
31	Dateline Originals	NBC News	True Crime	180	Simplecast	68
32	American Nightmares: The Canal Murders	Gamut Podcast Network	True Crime	75	ART19	63
33	What the Hack?	DeleteMe	True Crime	253	Megaphone	53
34	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime Obsessed	True Crime	648	Audioboom	48
35	True Crime All The Time Unsolved	PodcastOne	True Crime	495	ART19	52
36	Criminology	Emash Digital & Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford	True Crime	464	Simplecast	68
37	Murder In America	Bloody FM	True Crime	265	Megaphone	59
38	True Crime with Kendall Rae	Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios	True Crime	307	Audioboom	52
39	Bridge of Lies	ABC News	True Crime	9	Megaphone	59
40	RedHanded	RedHanded	True Crime	671	Audioboom	42
41	Dark Downeast	Audiochuck	True Crime	294	Simplecast	63
42	Someone Knows Something	CBC	True Crime	107	Triton Digital	53
43	Going West: True Crime	Dark West Productions	True Crime	565	Simplecast	49
44	Two Girls One Ghost	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	859	Megaphone	69
45	America's Most Infamous Crimes with Katie Ring	Crime House	True Crime	102	WideOrbit	68
46	What Is Happening Here \| Canadaland Investigates	Canadaland	True Crime	52	Acast	59
47	Crime Stories with Nancy Grace	iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline	True Crime	2003	Omny Studio	48
48	Blood Trails	MeatEater	True Crime	26	Omny Studio	63
49	True Crime Garage	TRUE CRIME GARAGE	True Crime	979	Simplecast	59
50	Something Was Wrong	Broken Cycle Media	True Crime	379	Audioboom	62
51	Cold Case Files	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	244	ART19	53
52	Betrayal Weekly	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	175	Omny Studio	73
53	Burden of Guilt	iHeartPodcasts \| Glass Podcasts	True Crime	45	Omny Studio	83
54	The Vanished Podcast	Audible Original	True Crime	578	ART19	58
55	Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries	Heart Starts Pounding	True Crime	206	WideOrbit	63
56	National Park After Dark	Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian	True Crime	415	Megaphone	73
57	Allegedly: A True Crime Podcast	Ashanda	True Crime	41	Spotify for Podcasters	62
58	Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast	Cryptic County	True Crime	465	Audioboom	42
59	Sistas Who Kill: A True Crime Podcast Feed not publicly shared by the creator	MaRah & Taz	True Crime	277	N/A	N/A
60	Fear Thy Neighbor	ID	True Crime	79	Acast	53
61	Rorschach: Murder at City Hall	iHeartPodcasts and Best Case	True Crime	11	Omny Studio	73
62	Chameleon	Audiochuck \| Campside Media	True Crime	54	Simplecast	69
63	The Prosecutors	PodcastOne	True Crime	464	ART19	43
64	Anatomy of Murder	Audiochuck	True Crime	267	Simplecast	63
65	The Final Hours with Sarah Turney and Kourtney Nichole	Crime House	True Crime	47	WideOrbit	62
66	Murder, Mystery & Makeup	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	196	Audioboom	58
67	Deadly Nightmares	ID	True Crime	90	Acast	59
68	Classic City Crime	Classic City Crime	True Crime	33	Spotify for Podcasters	33
69	Unicorn Girl	Apple TV+ / Seven Hills	True Crime	10	ART19	69
70	I Survived	A&E / PodcastOne	True Crime	136	ART19	53
71	Generation Why: True Crime	Audible Original	True Crime	219	ART19	68
72	Who Blew Up The Guidestones?	The Atlanta Journal-Constitution	True Crime	12	Megaphone	63
73	In The Dark	The New Yorker	True Crime	29	Megaphone	69
74	Small Town Dicks	Small Town Dicks \| Audio 99 \| Daylight Media	True Crime	300	Megaphone	63
75	Amanda Knox Hosts \| DOUBT: The Case of Lucy Letby	iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	16	Omny Studio	73
76	Deadly Engagement	NBC News	True Crime	9	Simplecast	58
77	Killer Psyche	Audible Original \| Treefort Media	True Crime	172	ART19	83
78	Nobody Should Believe Me	True Story Media	True Crime	164	Megaphone	73
79	Strangely	Always True Crime	True Crime	35	Acast	79
80	Serial Killers & Murderous Minds	Crime House	True Crime	204	WideOrbit	58
81	The Lets Read Podcast	Audioboom Studios	True Crime	365	Audioboom	68
82	Murder: True Crime Stories	Crime House	True Crime	245	WideOrbit	58
83	Blink \| Jake Haendel's Story	Sony Music, Corinne Vien, Jacob Haendel	True Crime	20	Megaphone	48
84	Scared To Death	Dan Cummins, Lynze Cummins	True Crime	451	Simplecast	73
85	Blood Will Tell	Audible \| Campside	True Crime	9	ART19	59
86	Project Mind Control	Always True Crime	True Crime	9	Acast	69
87	Forensic Files	HLN	True Crime	392	Acast	38
88	Up and Vanished	Tenderfoot TV	True Crime	197	WideOrbit	48
89	Clues with Kaelyn Moore	Crime House	True Crime	89	WideOrbit	58
90	Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes	Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts	True Crime	194	Omny Studio	52
91	MK True Crime	MK Media	True Crime	180	Simplecast	79
92	DNA: ID	AbJack Entertainment	True Crime	408	Libsyn	63
93	High Strange	Tenderfoot TV & Audacy	True Crime	25	Megaphone	69
94	Invisible Choir	Reach Freaks	True Crime	181	Megaphone	68
95	Matthew Cox \| Inside True Crime Podcast	Rhapsody Voices	True Crime	1272	Megaphone	27
96	Dead Certain: The Martha Moxley Murder	NBC News Studios	True Crime	14	Simplecast	73
97	Crime Weekly	Stephanie Harlowe and Derrick Levasseur	True Crime	447	Simplecast	68
98	Bear Brook	NHPR	True Crime	26	Megaphone	63
99	Residue: A True Crime Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Residue: A True Crime Podcast	True Crime	134	N/A	N/A
100	Proof: A True Crime Podcast	Red Marble Media	True Crime	103	Megaphone	68

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